Battery Park City

Battery Park City is a residential planned community on the southwestern tip of Manhattan, New York City. Once known as "Little Syria" due to the large populations of Lebanese, Greeks, Armenians, and other ethnic groups, Battery Park City developed from an ethnic enclave of Levantines to a planned community during the 1970s. The "city" actually consisted of 2/3 city and 1/3 park land, including landfills. By 2000, the city had a population of 7,951, with 75% being white, 17.93% Asian, .04% Pacific islander, 2.97% African-American, .06% Native American, 1.58% other, and 2.42% multiracial (5.32% of the population consisted of Hispanics).